League of Luck - Soloque Supports

AkaliTheOP·5/15/2016, 4:53:21 AM·1 votes·399 views

League of legends soloqueue is almost entirely RNG dependent for some unfortunate souls. I climbed Gold 5 to Plat 5 in about a week no problem at all. There were a few losses, don't get me wrong, but a 10 and 8 game win streak were involved, so overall the experience was rather simple. However, Plat 5 is a very different story. As a support main - unfortunate soul mentioned above - the game is quite unkind to us. If I lose the game, it was because I was unluckier than the enemy team. I hear the complaints already:

"But it's not luck bro, it's pure skill and you aren't carrying hard enough from support as Janna."

I'm not claiming perfect play by any standard, but I am claiming play that consistently beats diamonds in normal queue whenever they're around be it vs me as a jungler or as a support. Here's the problem: my lane isn't a losing in any of the games. Literally none. At worst, it's a 0-0 farm lane for laning phase. Things go downhill when I look at my jungler who's 1-4, mid who's 1-3, and top who's 0-7 (numbers from a legit game) and bot lane is 2-0. Okay, I played correctly. I played well. The rest of the team fed and there's nothing I can do about it. Game's over, we end up losing.

I do want to mention that I am not negative with my teams. I always break down in pregame what our win condition is, what to avoid, cheer on lanes when they get kills, push for good decisions about when to split, objectives, etc. I roast in post game for throwing a game. Supports have far too little say in what happens outside of laning phase because even in games when the ADC goes 10-0, a fed enemy team will slaughter the squishball in a few seconds. It hardly feels fair to, as nightblue says, "play to improve, not climb" and be constantly punished for proper play.

Additionally, I've noticed a difference in attitude. In Gold, I'd ping and essentially tell everyone what to do and think for them - but they'd listen. In Plat 5, everyone's a challenger tier player who knows everything about the game from matchups to strategies and refuses to acknowledge back pings, warnings of enemy jungler placement, etc. I always call summoner spells, I call objectives, I call every time I see the jungler so everyone knows exactly where he is every moment of the game, but I don't see anyone else keeping track of the game. They still manage to die to him even when I outright say "Kha is coming up on mid from bot river". These childish players have ruined so many games to the point I don't feel like playing ranked at all anymore. It's outright not my fault for losing when the team feeds. And do keep in mind I am honest with myself. I look back every game and say "What did I do wrong?" "Where could I have done something better?" and routinely the answer is not much in these games when there isn't much I can do other than drop wards and hope the enemy throws.

TL;DR - It feels unfair when you lose because the team fed and you played well.

QUESTION FOR COMMUNITY: What can be done other than switching mains to a carry role and throwing the team on your back? How can you overcome legitimately bad teams as a support?

I appreciate everyone's time and responses. Any additional details you're curious about can be provided and I wish you all the best in the League of Luck.

1 Comments

Curious Kat5/15/2016, 5:46:45 AM2 votes

I call this game League of RNG, you either win a lot because you got a good team, or you lose a lot because you got a bad team. I'm starting to see now a days, that it truly is impossible to solo carry a team now a days, unless you play champs that are ALWAYS banned, like Zed, then you can just dominate every lane.

I feel your pain, I am quite tired of doing everything in my power to win a match, and end up losing regardless because of my team, i can be mid, have the 1st tower pushed down, be 3-0, already roamed a couple times, and still lose because in the end, how can you expect a team that can't even win their lane, to team fight?

You can't carry a team fight, so unless you split push constantly for the win, or get magical penta's back to back, then there just really is no way to fully carry a team now. Especially with how premades have such a HUGE advantage of voice chat when they are a trio. Duo is no problem, but when it's a trio, or a 4 man, YOU WILL LOSE, by pure communication, because they can call shots faster, they can call out who to kill AND WHEN to kill in a team fight, or when to hard switch to someone etc.

A huge part of this game is communication, and Riot does not seem to understand this, they say solo queue players going against premades is fair because they are around the same rank and skill level. Sure, i can see that point, but what they fail to see is COMMUNICATION. I want to see them have an LCS match, with one team allowed to have voice chat, and the other team not allowed to have it, and see who wins, 9 times out of 10, the team with voice chat will win.

The best way that i see to fix this, is to add in game voice communication, like how every other damn game has, and there is no excuse for not having it at all, that way it is always equal in communication. And to those who think "what if they get toxic" ummm JUST LIKE EVERY GAME with voice chat, there is a mute option to mute zeh toxic player, just like how league has the option to mute a player in chat, would apply to voice chat as well.

This would ensure a 100% fair game against premades, because communication would be equal, then it really would be skill based on who wins, but even then, that doesn't stop you from losing if someone feeds, no matter how good you do, but it does give a slightly better chance if you can directly communicate to the person that a gank is coming or something.

Just some of my thoughts, lemme know what you think, and good luck in the League of RNG! xD